Principal Architect

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Work You’ll Do

As a PROJECT - Lead Security Engineer II on the Enterprise Security team, you will support cybersecurity operations for the Client's program by administering and sustaining tools used for continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, log analysis, and security operations support.

• Owns technical direction across the program's products and keeps it coherent as products multiply 
• Sets and enforces architecture and engineering standards that all teams build against 
• Chairs the architecture review process and documents significant decisions so reasoning survives turnover 
• Reviews designs before build starts, catching problems when they're cheap to fix 
• Owns the shared platform direction — what gets built once and reused versus built per product 
• Owns cloud architecture including environment design, service selection, and cost awareness 
• Sets architecture patterns for AI-powered products, including RAG and agentic systems, with compliance boundaries in mind 

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Enterprise Security offering embeds security in all aspects of digital transformation by securing a client’s technical backbone while enabling secure digital transformation. Includes security architecture, secure development and deployment, end-to-end cyber cloud capabilities, application security, and security for emerging technologies and connected products.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to obtain the necessary clearance. 
• Ability to travel 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• 2+ years of the following experience:
  • AI Architect: Intermediate
  • Cloud/AWS Architect: Mastery
  • Communication: Advanced
  • Detail Level System Design: Mastery
  • Product Launch: Advanced